Murder ballads are a subgenre of the traditional ballad form dealing with a crime or a gruesome death. Their lyrics form a narrative describing the events...

Murder Ballads is the ninth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in 1996 on Mute Records. As its title suggests, the album consists of...

Murder Ballad is a rock opera musical with music and lyrics by Juliana Nash, and book and lyrics by Julia Jordan. Murder Ballad centers around a young...

event inspired a number of songs and other tributes including the murder ballad "The Murder of the Lawson Family", which was originally recorded by the Carolina...

Hendelman. The project uses the murder ballad genre to explore American history, especially 19th-century America. In American Murder Song, Saar and Terrance play...

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally...

Appalachian region of North America, among other places. The song is a murder ballad, telling of a young woman lured into the forest where she is killed...

played the Narrator in Manhattan Theatre Club's Off-Broadway musical Murder Ballad, for which she received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding...

lyricist of "Mack the Knife" A Moritat is a medieval version of the murder ballad performed by strolling minstrels. In The Threepenny Opera, the Moritat...

is a traditional Appalachian murder ballad. It is written from the perspective of a man facing the gallows for the murder of his lover, who he gave poisoned...